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Moleskine leather cover

Hi,

I have designed and made myself a Moleskine leather cover using the hand dying technic again as I did with the phone cases here and here.

Here is the design I did to understand roughly how I will make it.

I made the cover for a Moleskine sketch, the first I buy as I was using Moleskine plain before and I have been super disappointed when I realized the paper was absolutely not working with markers, it literally drinks the ink and the results are absolutely awful, I do not know what to do with it now, that's quite a shame because I loved the paper and I got a beautiful leather cover now...

Here are some pictures of the finish product.


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New hand-made leather cases

Hi there,

I have just completed two lovely leather phone cases and experimented a process to transfer ink in the leather and it seemed to work pretty well, again the leather is hand/hand stitched, 100% hand-made.

Two new phone cases, one for Iphone 4 and one for HTC wildfire.

Leather edges finishing detail, lining is made of lamb with a natural finish.

Hand stitching detail.

1st rendering test with the Gimp

I have been trying to render a Doodle I had made in my moleskine and found that it could be quite an interesting alternative to the analog way, I am not yet really good at it and need more practice but I am quite please with the result as this took me like 15 minutes.

Here is the doodle right from the scanner:

And here the Gimped version

In case you did not know, The Gimp is a free image manipulation program which is quite powerful and it is available for Mac and Windows users you can get it here http://www.gimp.org/ it is a very interesting alternative to Photoshop and some peoples even use them both as they find them complementary.

Phone case

Here is a phone case I designed, nothing really exciting in term of shape or concept actually, that's why I decided to "antiguish" the leather to make the whole thing a bit more interesting.

Following the design is the finish product I made using hand-dyed calf crust.

Bag#7

Cat on flying engine

Bags #6

Hi,

 I feel I am going to draw something different than bags for a while, maybe I will doodle some shoes.

Bags#4

More bags....

Bags#2

A few more leather goods

Comic strip #2

Here is my second attempt, that was a quick one but I had fun doing it.

Routine breaker

Hi, here is quick doodle inspired from a true personal story.

Market day

That's a big mess actually and I am not convinced at all with my inking but liked the scene, I might  be re-doing some similar drawing again.

I am never been able to get really happy with my inkings and had tried so many types of pens, the ones which I prefer are currently technical pens but still I am not convinced, I guess the solution is practice that's it.

Comic Strip #1

I plan to post a couple of small funny stories as the one below on this blog in future, I was doing quite a lot a comic stripe some years back, I feel like starting doing some again just for fun, in any event that's a pretty good exercise to get better at drawing appropriate character emotions in specific situations. The beauty with cartoons is there are no limits -in fact, yes there is one- your imagination.

Drawing, especially doodling can be extremely relaxing, but sometimes it is not, especially when you have drunk too much coffee and you are no more able to do a proper inking.